School has only been out for a few weeks, but that’s long enough for bad habits to take root. TV. Video games. Rooting around in the pantry for chips and soda. Houston’s sultry summers make it tempting for kids to hibernate inside, but a quick look at the latest childhood obesity statistics shows why that’s […]
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The Supreme Court ruling on health care reform is expected any day now, and one of the key players, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, made his prediction Wednesday. “I’m very optimistic the Supreme Court will declare Obamacare unconstitutional,” Scott told reporters on a conference call. Florida is the lead plaintiff in one of two cases that […]
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The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the Affordable Care Act any day now, and regardless of what it decides, health care organizations are trying to get ready. That includes Community Health Choice, created by the Harris County Hospital District 15 years ago when the state began nudging Medicaid patients into managed care. It now serves 230,000 people […]
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is celebrating a $155 million milestone Friday, the official opening of its new high-tech School of Dentistry. The six-story, 300,000 square-foot building will allow the centert to expand enrollment in its dentistry program by 20 percent, to 100 students – a good thing in a state where […]
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High-level concerns have surfaced in the past week over the integrity of the process through which Texas’ $3 billion anti-cancer initiative awards grants. Last week, the chief scientific officer for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Alfred Gilman, resigned, citing concerns about the review process that allocated $20 million of taxpayer money to […]
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Beginning at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center will Twittercast a live brain surgery. The procedure will be performed by Dr. Dong Kim, the neurosurgeon who treated former U.S. Rep. Gabriel Giffords, and will feature a live video feed from the microscope camera he’ll be using as he works in the patient’s brain. […]
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Dr. Ronald DePinho The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, top ranked for its clinical care but not its scientific discovery, finally has a scientist in the nation’s most august body of scientists. Dr. Ronald DePinho, who became M.D. Anderson’s fourth president last summer and immediately announced plans to improve the research hospital’s basic […]
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A new report ranking the well-being of women in America’s top 25 metropolitan areas delivered bad news for Houston. But life expectancy here offers some lessons, if we can figure out what they are.
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There’s a new solution to help Houston finally shake its distinction as the “Fattest City in America” granted again this year by Men’s Fitness magazine. And if we danced, walked or biked the bulges off, even better. Shape Up Houston, an effort to improve the health and wellness of residents through weight loss, is designed […]
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